News Center 7 celebrates the people and organizations who have progressed our nation forward for more equality and equity to ...

Why did Mr. Stimson pick Liberia from the list of lands in which one form or another of slavery still exists?— Plainly because U. S. blacks founded the Republic in 1847, named it “Liberty ...

A new generation of Sierra Leoneans is eager to show visitors that the nation's civil war is long gone and reintroduce one of ...

William Nesbit, an African American man who moved to Blair County in the mid-1800s was instrumental in helping others secure ...

Research on Boston's Home for Aged Colored Women offers a poignant window into a past we only thought we knew.

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators ...

While lectures on the legacies of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman are all important, some educators (and their students) are eager to learn more about underrepresented ...

In 1920, he founded U.N.I.A.’s financial arm ... Washington’s memoir “Up from Slavery,” and his effort to develop a program of industrial education at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama ...

1820—The first organized emigration of Blacks from the U.S. back to Africa occurs. Eighty-six free Blacks leave New York Harbor on a ship named the “Mayflower of Liberia.” The group lands on the West ...